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This project has been moved to its own draft page, with the title "[[User:Mousemambo/Introduction to xenharmonic music terminology|Introduction to xenharmonic music terminology]]."

This is a section in early development to collect terms that don't seem fundamental enough to include in the limited space of the "Introduction to xenharmonic music terminology" but I believe seem important enough to warrant inclusion in an intermediate-level follow-up. Some might instead get incorporated into the Introduction before its first non-draft release.

The criterion for inclusion in the "introduction" — that the whole thing fit inside a one-semester academic class — doesn't hold as well here because you could make an intermediate terminology collection for each of several specialties, e.g. JI tunings, EDO tunings, [[RTT]], etc. But in the interest of continuing the idea of a survey of xenharmonic terminology, I'll eventually create sections for each specialty that seems to me at this time to be important for a survey of xenharmonic music theory areas of study, but for now this is just a hodgepodge.

* [[7-limit]]

* [[Chord]]

* [[Chord of nature]]

* [[Color notation]]

* Commas (Might better be presented as "Temperament families" with a list of important ones... Marvel, Porcupine, etc. and the commas they temper out.)

** [[64/63|Archytas' comma]] (aka 64/63)

** [[Magic comma]] (aka 3125/3072, small diesis)

** [[Ptolemisma]] (aka 100/99)

** [[49/48|Slendro diesis]] (aka 49/48, large septimal diesis)

* [[Comma pump]]

* [[Comma pump examples]]

* [[Comparison of mode notation systems]]

* [[Diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic, subchromatic]]

* [[Distributional evenness]]

* [[Extended bra-ket notation]]

* [[Extended-diatonic interval names]]

* [[Extension and restriction]]

* [[Extra-Diatonic Intervals]]

* [[Gallery of just intervals]]

* [[Hexany]]

* [[Isoharmonic chord]]

* [[Just intonation subgroup]]

* [[List of superparticular intervals]]

* [[Nonoctave|Nonoctave scales]]

* [[Notation]]

* [[Pergen]]

* [[Scale index]]

**[[5edo]]. Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:Equal temperament#Five-, seven-, and nine-tone temperaments in ethnomusicology|Equal temperament§Five-, seven-, and nine-tone temperaments in ethnomusicology]]

**[[22edo]]. Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:22 equal temperament|22 equal temperament]].

**[[Mavila]]

**[[Superpyth]]

Here is an outline of some ideas about how to make the Xenharmonic Wiki more useful to musicians by improving the article quality.

**Tone in writing: Encyclopedic, authoritative, monographic, conversational, telegraphic, informal, comedic, etc.

**Recommended reading for learning how to write better nonfiction:

***[https://www.grammarly.com/blog/paragraph-structure/ Paragraph structure: How to write strong paragraphs]. Grammarly (blog).

***[https://www.grammarly.com/blog/paragraphs/ The ultimate guide to paragraphs]. Grammarly (blog).

***Peter Elbow. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=978-0195120189 Writing With Power].

***Is accessible to the Wiki's not-actually-officially-defined target audience of beginners: musicians with at least a basic introduction to music theory. This can be defined as first-semester, college Music Theory 101, but is also commonly introduced to high-school piano, guitar, and jazz musicians.

***Provides links to beginner and intermediate-level articles on conventional or xenharmonic music theory as needed.

***Regardless of the topic (advanced or not), includes absolutely no math theory terminology beyond high school level, unless it is very, very commonly used in Xenharmonic music discussions, and links to/toward beginner-level articles are provided. If no such article exists, omit that terminology from the introduction, and present it later with a redlink to create that article. There are certainly also alternative ways to address the serious Xenharmonic Wiki problem of inaccessible articles that understandably frighten off musicians without a higher math degree. There are occasional paired articles, one for beginners (e.g. [[Mapping]]) and one for advanced readers (e.g. [[Temperament mapping matrices]]) — see [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Beginner|list of beginner pages]]/[[:Category:Beginner pages|Category:Beginner page]]<nowiki/>s, [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Expert|list of expert pages]]/[[:Category:Expert pages|Category:Expert pages]]. This can be an effective approach but requires substantially more work.

**Sections that divide the article into different depths of understanding, i.e. that require the reader to have less or more preexisting understandings. More advanced understandings belong in sections later in the article. This is true even for more advanced articles, because in effective narrative nonfiction writing there is always a progression of understanding. Some possible terms for the non-math/math sectional division (these can be mixed and matched): Elementary/Technical, Basic/Advanced, Fundamental/Detailed. Some great examples of presenting complex topics in several levels of understanding can be found the YouTube series [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLibNZv5Zd0dyCoQ6f4pdXUFnpAIlKgm3N 5 Levels], from Wired.

*Useful category links and their corresponding template for tagging articles. To tag an article for category inclusion, add to its bottom after a blank line: <nowiki>[[category:todo:intro]]</nowiki> (for example).

**[[:Category:Stubs]] (generally use [[Template:Stub]] instead so that an infobox gets automatically added)

***[[:Category:Todo:expand|Todo:expand]]

***[[:Category:Todo:simplify|Todo:simplify]]

**[[:Category:Inaccessible pages|Category:Inaccessible pages]] | Or preferably, use [[Template:Inaccessible]] which both adds an article to this category and also adds a gentle warning message box to the article's head.

**[[:Category:Expert pages|Category:Expert pages]]

***[[:Category:Message boxes|Message boxes]] | [[Template:Mbox]] (general-purpose message box)

**Embedded image file (e.g. [[Help:Pictures]]). File:<filename> | E.g. <nowiki>[[File:The_Scale_Tree.png|alt=The Scale Tree.png|800x1023px|The Scale Tree.png]]</nowiki>